RBS Changes - Project Server 2003

[Sue C]

Due to recent org changes, major structural changes need to be made to
the RBS. I understand from posts that the best way to complete this
is...make RBS changes, reassign resources new RBS code...and to do
this before the Cube runs in the evening.

Questions:

1. When done making changes and prior to the Cube running...should
PM's open their plans (we have 128 of them) and republish?

2. How does this effect historical Work? Some posts indicate
historical work will skew or disappear, therefore becoming incorrect
when running reports from the database.

3. Anything else I'm not thinking of that may be effected?

Thanks so much.

 

[Ben Howard]

Answers
1. No, you won't have to publish the plans.
2. Historical work will now be shown under the new RBS.
3. Check everything on a test system before hand.

 

[Sue C]

Answers
1. No, you won't have to publish the plans.
2. Historical work will now be shown under the new RBS.
3. Check everything on a test system before hand.
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Ben,

Thanks so much for your response. It's truly appreciated. We have a
development server that we're using for some report building. We'll
test on that before loading the new RBS to Production. I guess our
biggest fear is losing historical work that was assigned to one
resource, and that resource has been replaced or been assigned a new
RBS Code....we shall see.
Sue

 

[Ben Howard]

The work will always stay with the resource. If you wanted to see what work
had been done for a dept after the RBS changes, then you'll need to create
another "oldrbs" code, assign those to the resources, and then change to the
new one. That way you could see the work done in the old RBS (you'd have to
filter on date in the OLAP cube too.

 

[Sue C]

The work will always stay with the resource. If you wanted to see what work
had been done for a dept after the RBS changes, then you'll need to create
another "oldrbs" code, assign those to the resources, and then change to the
new one. That way you could see the work done in the old RBS (you'd have to
filter on date in the OLAP cube too.

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Ben,

Not to be dumb, but I've been thinking about this. It sounds like a
great idea (and am glad it can be done), but I just can't get my hands
around how exacly to do it. Do I create a new EROCode29, for
instance, for the old RBS, then somehow that takes a picture in time
of this history? Then with the ERO Code 30-RBS make all revision I
need then reorganize the structure and change the RBS for those
resources it affected? Yeah, I can see what I've just said makes no
sense at all. Could you get me started?

Thanks!

Sue

 

[Ben Howard]

Actually that sounds like a great idea.